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One thing to keep in mind is that the selection is dependent on your local library, so the listing is a sum of the subsets but you can get a general idea of the content that's available there.
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JustWatch is awesome.
Is there any way to know, with JustWatch, which free streaming services are available in Canada?
Yes, once you sign up there's a provider selection wizard that allows you to see a list of free services in your selected country. You can then also "batch add" all of them to your providers so they are always selected automatically.
It VERY much is. Used my community college login, and there was nothing at all, anywhere. My login for a largish state college was a little better, but not much...maybe 50 total items and all in the documentary, gender studies, and one other section.
Kanopy should probably work the UI a little for linked accounts to places that have nothing at all to offer...rather than having you create the login, verify an email, etc.
I want to build an app which will dump me in random pages of my checkouted books, instead of me gathering energy to do it. I have other features planned.
I am stuck with how to interface with my local library, like Libby does. Any ideas ?
Granted, they're unlikely to just give you special access, but you could at least learn something.
Libraries are just paying for the ability to offer Libby to patrons. Libby then taps into a login API for the ILS a library uses to check if a patron's library card and PIN are tied to an eligible account, and Libby offers its own content based on whatever each library can afford to offer.
You would need to offer your own content, ultimately, with the Libby model. Same goes for OverDrive, Hoopla and Kanopy.
I haven't looked into Hoopla and Libby's policies yet, but I'd be willing to bet they're doing the same. Librarians have traditionally been very concerned with preserving the right to access content and information of all kinds without being monitored. They fought hard (and lost) against the US government being able to collect lists of the books and media users checked out from the library. It's odd to see a librarian advocate for people to use 3rd party services which will do exactly that along with far more invasive tracking.
I'm not just calling you out on this, although some have backed away from these services for various reasons (https://billypenn.com/2021/07/20/free-library-kanopy-movies-...) libraries around the country have embraced services which can track, censor, and put library user's data, privacy, and safety at risk. They advertise and push these services onto library patrons without informing them of the risks and without any mention of what card holders will be giving up by using them. Leaving it to library users to seek out and read through corporate privacy policies full of legal language and weasel wording seems very wrong to me.
In the US, as library card holders, we can't keep our reading lists out of the hands of the state, but we can do more to keep it out of the hands of private for profit companies and data brokers. I'm not saying there's no place for these types of services in libraries (although I'd love to see similar systems developed and operated entirely by library systems instead of 3rd parties), I just wish more libraries were looking out for the privacy of their users and were willing to do more of what they do best: keeping the people informed.
Do you know if the library gives my address, etc?
I don't know how much apple restricts access to other things that can give away your location besides IP geolocation, but things like nearby wifi networks and nearby bluetooth beacons/devices are also being used to generate maps that can give extremely accurate location data. Typically cell tower data can ID a mobile device to within a mile or so, but where 5G is available the resolution is improved to feet instead of miles. If they can link the data they get from your library or from these streaming services to the data they get from your wireless provider they could know your part of town (4G) or which house (or even which room of that house) you're standing in (5G)
> Do you know if the library gives my address, etc?
To the feds? that's difficult to answer. The government doesn't give the public details of what kind of information they're taking and when. There's a decent article about the past collection of library data by the FBI and the resurgence of the practice post-9/11 here:
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/FBI-checking-out-Ame...
When they lost the fight to keep the government from snooping around some libraries responded by changing their data collection practices to limit as much as possible what data they had on their users. You can check with your library and see if they have your address on file. If they do, I would assume that it would be up for grabs if the government came knocking and I would recommend starting from the assumption that all available data is being collected routinely on everyone, from every location.
While the official line will be that this sort of collection by the state will be targeted (even if that means targeting everyone who checked out books about certain subjects or anyone who fits a certain profile) without a whistleblower willing to risk everything to come forward how could we ever really know the extent of the data collection taking place? One of the things that drove Snowden to become a whistleblower himself was that he knew from first hand experience that the then Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and the director of the NSA Keith Alexander (who is currently sitting on Amazon's board of directors) were lying to Congress while under oath about when where and how the agency was spying on Americans. There's really no reason to take these organizations at their word, or to assume that even those in the highest offices in our government would know what they were up to any better than you or I do.
You and I may care about signing up for services and not being tracked across the internet for the kinds of interests we have, but the way I see it, and the way many suburban and rural libraries and librarians may also see it, our patrons were probably already going to subscribe to Netflix or Amazon Prime, and all their egregious privacy violations.
While most (I would hope) librarians would agree that keeping a patron's private information, including their reading and watching habits be kept secret, equal access to materials and information is far more important.
I would love if larger libraries could develop their own systems for free content that can be accessed by their patrons and perhaps even by other libraries, but that's just not the reality we live in. Similar to how every IP holder wants to create their own subscription-based platforms for content, libraries would be like Netflix. The content people actually want will always be not on Netflix. In the end, many suburban and rural libraries are desperate for usage by their populace, no matter the cost to privacy.
The especially interesting free set is (at least through my library), is a nearly full collection of the Greater Courses, a very high quality educational materials. You can see the official source here: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses It is also a good way to find the actual course and then plug it into Kanopy.
Finally, searching Kanopy on the mobile phone app, bookmarking and then switching to TV app to actually watch is an easier workflow than trying to type things in TV interface.
Another digital library functionality I use is [Libby](https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby), which lets me read library books on my Kindle or Kindle App. Saves me and my wife hundreds of dollars a year on books!
Also, some really smart UX/UI decisions in the app. And: I'm super-jaded about this stuff, but find the subtle "delighters" and microinteractions actually helpful and enhance the experience.
But...
> Stream thousands of films for free, thanks to the generous support of your public library or university
Kanopy isn't non-profit is it? Either way, libraries and universities are paying fees to kanopy for licensed access. This is an odd way and potentially misleading way of putting it, "generous support". Will Elsevier start telling users they are getting "free access thanks to the generous support of your university" next, as if universities pay elsevier it's enormous fees out of "generosity"?
I have no idea what profit margin Kanopy makes, which is I guess how we'd determine if it was "gouging"? I don't know from "gouging".
Browse > Online Resources > Watch (streaming video) > Then pick what you want to access:
* Access Video on Demand (Educational)
* Curio.ca (CBC material, and has teacher related material)
* Hoopla (Audiobooks)
* Just for Kids
* Kanopy (My favourite. Limited to 4 movies a month.
* Kanopy For Kids (unlimited)
* Medici.tv | EDU (Music e.g. Classical)
* Naxos Video Library (Music e.g Classical)
* Many newspapers and magazines, all searchable and online!
> As of July 1, 2019, The New York Public Library will no longer offer cardholders free access to video streaming platform Kanopy. The Library made this decision after a careful and thorough examination of its streaming offerings and priorities. We believe the cost of Kanopy makes it unsustainable for the Library, and that our resources are better utilized purchasing more in-demand collections such as books and e-books.
https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/june-24-2019/statem...
I generally prefer to walk over to my local library branch and browse their film collection in-person.
This offer here would be something I'd look into, except learning it hurts the library more than expected is a downer.
Which is likely an incentive for libraries to not expose those costs on a per-request basis. As thebitstick mentioned here[1], libraries want to encourage usage. Overall usage volume has already been budgeted for, so the variances between one request and another for a typical patron won't materially impact the overall capacity of a library from serving their patrons. Inversely, if exposing the individual request costs disincentive enough conscientious patrons from making those requests, it makes it more difficult for the library to justify the service at all and could result in the loss of budget to continue covering it. Which ends up being a net loss of access for those patrons which do not have the means to access it elsewhere and were reliant on the library for it.
Sounds like it’s not that far from a point where it’d be cheaper to just print a book on demand, mail it, and tell ‘em to just keep it or pass it on.
But to publishers, increasing the volume of printed copies of a given title is absolutely not equal to a library purchasing a single copy and physically handling it in circulation until it naturally degrades to the point of being trashed. Physically printing brand new copies for patrons to keep every time a book was 'checked-out' would pose such a materially large impact on sales volume that publishers flat out wouldn't allow it.
Even a perpetual license to loan a single copy of an ebook can cost a library upwards of $100[1], due to potential revenue impact to publishers/authors from having it in circulation in perpetuity without physical deterioration naturally limiting it's lifetime/volume of loans. And the number of simultaneous loans for a given title is generally restricted to the number of individual licenses you've paid for. If that's the case even for ebooks, you can imagine what they'd require to print a title on demand and give it away to a patron forever.
[1] https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/a-new-twist-i...
Put another way, if my library dropped Kanopy, almost no one would notice. So it's hard to claim Kanopy is being "predatory" as another commenter mentioned.
I get that the infrastructure for streaming isn't cheap, and neither are the licensing fees, but this feels like price gouging. I know price gouging is a specific legal term but I'm speaking in the vernacular sense.
I also understand that my library has a lot more data to make the decision than my feeling of guilt. There's no need to speculate. Email your library and ask them:
"Would you prefer I stream title X from Kanopy, or check out the DVD?"
And also ask
"Would you prefer I stream title Y from Kanopy, for which you don't carry the DVD?"
Feel free to provide the context, expressing concerns that it'll potentially cost them over $150, and you're worried that they are being abused by Kanopy.
If the library's not willing to tell me to prefer the DVD, then I'm not concerned.
I feel better about $2, but it would still make me really think about whether I'd want to watch a movie that badly.
SFPL's annual operating budget (not including capex, and not including notional rent on buildings) is $160MM.
That's about $17/month per SF resident. Many SF residents don't use library services at all, so the $/month per MAU is likely mich higher ($50? $100?)
There's an app and it's nice to d/l a film to watch when I'm on the spin bike.
Books cost libraries money, too. Budgets come out of the taxes I pay.
This is really useful when certain libraries may have different eBook platforms, streaming services, and/or database access than other systems. For example, an eBook may be checked out or unavailable in one little town’s website, but not another.
(I currently have four California cards, for Los Angeles, San Francisco, and two different Marin county libraries/systems.)
People who say "they should just buy the DVD" are imagining that the library can just pay $20 or whatever, and then offer it to as many users as want to watch?
I don't think it works that way for libraries. Maybe someone who knows for sure can tell us? I'm guessing that they get the right to loan out the DVD physically but not electronically.
I ran the Cinema Club at Google for 10 years, and we made our lawyers happy by always paying "public performance rights" (PPRs) for all our flicks. When you buy a DVD, you get a license for "home viewing." That does not allow you to invite members of the public in to watch. You cannot show it in your bar or restaurant or at a place of business. Maybe you, Fred Hacker, can get away with it, but a large multinational company cannot.
When I negotiated PPRs with a film distributor, they always asked these questions:
1) Is the film showing advertised outside your company?
2) Is attendance limited to employees and their guests?
3) How big is the room? (or maybe it was "what's the average attendance?")
I didn't look into what public libraries pay for their movies, but I'm pretty sure it's more than you would pay to just buy the DVD.
I don’t think a library would sign up to Kanopy if it wasn’t somehow more attractive to them over DVDs.
Back when Terry Semel (ex Warner Brothers CEO) was still CEO, Yahoo! would show Oscar screeners in the cafeteria of the best films nominees around that time. Answers to your questions would be 1) No, 2) yes, 3) I dunno, employee cafeteria sized... The organizers said that we were "just in Jerry and David's living room", strongly implying that no public performance rights were obtained, but I dunno. I also don't know if the official screener discs come with appropriate rights.
My data is at least 5 years out of date. But their list price used to be $250 per movie.
Eventually, a lawyer at Google SF got a global, unlimited license for the whole company, so I didn't have to negotiate anymore. I didn't even want to ASK the Motion Picture Licensing Corp. what that cost.
So we went through Swank for years and years. Those are the two distributors who have all the Hollywood movies. There are lots of smaller distributors, too.
Just add your multiple library cards and each video or set of videos would use a credit from your library for that month. Once all credits for a given library expire, you can connect Kanopy simply to a different library card with just one click.
Enjoy them. There's no reason to get poor to get an education.
I looked at their ad for their video introduction to playing violin. As I recall, they want $169 or so for their course. Seems high!
In
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31903188
I give an introduction to playing violin.
"Then, we'll ask you for your public library card number and PIN/password"
That's a hard no.
Don't give your password to anyone
I think suspicion of any company that asks for your password with a third party is warranted. Asking for credentials like this not only teaches bad security practices, but even if Kanopy is trustworthy today, the company could easily be sold to a less trustworthy owner and all the data from your library account siphoned and sold to data brokers.
Kanopy uses your card number and PIN to access an API for whatever ILS the library allows Kanopy to point to. Libraries allow access when they pay for giving access to Kanopy for their patrons.
However, in theory, this could give Kanopy access to try and harvest checked out materials via our catalog with these credentials. In practice, we haven't seen them doing this. Your PIN/password should after all be different from the ones you use for every website.
The old search interface was nice. It was easy to get a list of newly-added items, sorted by date, with thumbnails and metadata. The new UI is just thumbnails in a horizontal "carousel" and you can only see metadata by clicking the thumbnail.
I don't know how anybody thought this was a good idea.
Side note: In the mouths of marketers "thoughtful", "intentional", and "purposeful" are null words.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31903188
here I give something of some first lessons in violin.
Part I
=== Music Theory 101 for Beginning Violinists
== Notes and Pitch
Like nearly all music, when a violin makes a sound, that sound as a pitch which in terms of some math, audio engineering, etc., has a pitch, that is, a fundamental frequency. Call that sound a note. Of course, commonly in music, more than one note is being played at once; such music is polyphonic.
A standard piano has 88 keys, some are white and some are black.
Near the middle of the keyboard is the key middle C, a white key. Its pitch, fundamental frequency, is 261.63 cycles per second, that is, Hertz or Hz.
Any two notes, e.g., two notes on piano, define an interval.
We will be especially interested in the intervals, we will define below, of a semi-tone, whole tone, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and octave.
Thanks to Bach and equal temperment, any two keys on a piano next to each other, two white keys or a black key and a white key, have their pitches separated by a semi-tone. The key with the higher pitch has the frequency of the lower key multiplied by quite accrately the 12th root of 2:
2^(1/12) = 1.05946309436
Well, two keys separated by two semi-tones are separated by a whole-tone. So, the ratios of frequencies should be about
1.05946309436*2 = 1.122,462,048
Two semi-tones form an interval of a whole tone or 2nd with ratio of frequencies
1.05946309436*2 = 1.122,462,048
Two whole tones form an interval of a major 3rd or just a 3rd with ratio of frequencies
1.05946309436*4 = 1.259,921,049
An interval of a 4th is 5 semi-tones so has frequency ratio
1.05946309436*5 = 1.334,839,854,2
A 5th is 7 semi-tones with ratio
1.05946309436*7 = 1.498,307,076,9
6th, 9 semi-tones, ratio
1.05946309436*9 = 1.681,792,830,5
7th, 11 semi-tones, ratio
1.05946309436*11 = 1.887,748,625,4
An 8th, octave, 12 semi-tone for ratio
1.05946309436*12 = 2
no surprise.
=== Major Keys
Suppose we pick a key on the piano and call that our tonic. If we go up whole tone, whole tone, semi-tone, whole tone, whole tone, whole tone, semi-tone, we will have gone up 12 semi-tones, an octave, and played the notes of the major scale on the note we picked as our tonic.
So, the notes of a major scale are a tonic and the notes we get going up
tone, tone, semi-tone, tone, tone,
tone, semi-tone
Here is some of the importance of a major scale: A large fraction of all of Western music starts on some note selected as the tonic, plays the notes of only the major scale on that tonic, and, to end, returns to the tonic, or nearly so. The "nearly so" can be a source of variety of expression.
== Notes and Intervals for Violinists
A violin has 4 strings with names, from left to right as seen by the violinist, from lower pitch to higher pitch, G, D, A, E.
Middle C as on a piano is on a violin the first C on the G string and, thus, a 4th above the G.
The D string is a 5th above the G; the A string is a 5th above the D; and the E string is a 5th above the A. E.g., on a violin, the interval between two adjacent strings is always just a 5th. Simple tuning.
So, the A is 9 semi-tones above middle C and has frequency
261.63 * 1.05946309436**9 =
440.007,458,248
So, the way we tune a violin is to get a tuning fork that vibrates at 440 Hz and use it to tune the A string to 440 Hz.
Above we saw that a 5th is 7 semi-tones so has ratio
1.05946309436*7 = 1.498,307,076
Gee, that is really close to 3/2.
Thus, for any two adjacent strings on a violin, 3 times the fundamental frequency of the string with the lower pitch is the same number as 2 times the fundamental frequency of the string with the higher pitch. That fact is a grand pillar of violin playing.
So, let's suppose we use the violin bow to play at the same time on adjacent strings D and A. Suppose we have tuned the A string to 440 Hz. Then the D string should have frequency 2/3rds of 440
2*440 / 3 = 293.333,333,333
2*440 / 3 = 293.333,333,333
Now if the D string frequency was off by a little, say, 294 Hz, then from the D string we will be getting
3*294 = 882 Hz
From some basic trigonometry, what we will hear is essentially the 880 Hz sound but with its volume comming and going ~2 times a second. We will hear beats. As we adjust the tuning peg on the D string and get the D string frequency to where it belongs at
2*440 / 3 = 293.333,333,333 Hz
2*440 / 3 = 293.333,333,333 Hz
Now our violin is tuned and ready to make music!
== Checking Intonation
A violinist needs to work with the intervals within an octave, that is, less than or equal to an octave.
As he learns to hear and play these intervals he can check his intonation with beats based on ratios of small whole numbers as we saw above for a 5th.
Here is a list of all the possibly relevant small whole numbers:
2/1 = 2
3/2 = 1.500,000,000,0
4/3 = 1.333,333,333,3
5/2 = 2.500,000,000,0
5/3 = 1.666,666,666,7
5/4 = 1.250,000,000,0
6/5 = 1.200,000,000,0
7/2 = 3.500,000,000,0
7/3 = 2.333,333,333,3
7/4 = 1.750,000,000,0
7/5 = 1.400,000,000,0
7/6 = 1.166,666,666,7
8/3 = 2.666,666,666,7
8/5 = 1.600,000,000,0
8/7 = 1.142,857,142,9
1.05946309436**1 = 1.059,463,094,4
1.05946309436**2 = 1.122,462,048,3
1.05946309436**3 = 1.189,207,115,0
1.05946309436**4 = 1.259,921,049,9
1.05946309436**5 = 1.334,839,854,2
1.05946309436**6 = 1.414,213,562,4
1.05946309436**7 = 1.498,307,076,9
1.05946309436**8 = 1.587,401,052,0
1.05946309436**9 = 1.681,792,830,5
1.05946309436**10 = 1.781,797,436,3
1.05946309436**11 = 1.887,748,625,4
1.05946309436**12 = 2
2nd
1.05946309436**2 = 1.122,462,048,3
7/6 = 1.166,666,666,7
minor 3rd
1.05946309436**3 = 1.189,207,115,0
6/5 = 1.200,000,000,0
major 3rd
1.05946309436**4 = 1.259,921,049,9
5/4 = 1.250,000,000,0
4th
1.05946309436**5 = 1.334,839,854,2
4/3 = 1.333,333,333,3
1.05946309436**6 = 1.414,213,562,4
7/5 = 1.400,000,000,0
5th
1.05946309436**7 = 1.498,307,076,9
3/2 = 1.500,000,000,0
1.05946309436**8 = 1.587,401,052,0
6th
1.05946309436**9 = 1.681,792,830,5
5/3 = 1.666,666,666,7
1.05946309436**10 = 1.781,797,436,3
7/4 = 1.750,000,000,0
7th
1.05946309436**11 = 1.887,748,625,4
octave
1.05946309436**12 = 2
2/1 = 2
major 3rd
1.05946309436**4 = 1.259,921,049,9
5/4 = 1.250,000,000,0
4th
1.05946309436**5 = 1.334,839,854,2
4/3 = 1.333,333,333,3
5th
1.05946309436**7 = 1.498,307,076,9
3/2 = 1.500,000,000,0
6th
1.05946309436**9 = 1.681,792,830,5
5/3 = 1.666,666,666,7
octave
1.05946309436**12 = 2
2/1 = 2
Number fingers on the left hand 1-4 with the index finger 1 and the little finger 4.
Learn to play on the A string a 4th above the A on the A string, that is, note D. Play this D with the 3rd finger -- now are playing with the left hand in the first position. That D is easy to learn because can check the pitch by playing with the open D string and listening for beats.
Then also on the A string, learn to play the 3rd above the A. Do this with the second finger. The note will be C#, and one way to check the pitch is just to have the 3rd finger on D and then have the 2nd finger about as close to the 3rd finger as you can. That is, there a semi-tone is about a finger width. Also the C# is a minor 3rd below the open E and can be checked by bowing with the open E.
Then with the 1st finger, play the 2nd, that is, B on the A string. This pitch will be a 4th below the open E string, so it is fairly easy to check the pitch with beats with the E string.
For the 4th finger, on the A string play the 5th, that is, the E, and, sure, it will have the same pitch as the open E string.
Now on the A string you can play A, B, C#, D, and E, that is, the first five notes of the A major scale. Move your left hand over to the E string and with fingers 1-3 as you had them on the A string, keep playing. Will be playing F#, G#, and A, the full A major scale. Since the pitch of the F# is a 6th above that of the open A string, can check your pitch, intonation, of the F# by bowing with the open A string and listening to beats.
Take what you did with your fingers on the A string and do the same thing with your fingers starting on the D string and play the D major scale, D, E, F#, G, A, B, C#, D.
Do the same thing starting on the G string and play the G major scale, G, A, B, C, D, E, F#, G.
Now you have a start on playing the major scale of any of the three keys G, D, and A. The D is the key of the center section of the Bach Chaconne.
== More About Fifths and Keys
If you start with the open D string and, say, on a piano go down in pitch a 5th, 7 semi-tones, then will be at a C, the first one below middle C. Then all the notes in the C major scale will be C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, all white keys, no sharps or flats. So, go up a 5th to G and play its major scale, G, A, B, C, D, E, F#, G, and will have played one sharp, F#. Now starting on D and playing its major scale will play D, E, F#, A, B, C#, D. So, we play the F# we had with the G major scale and play one more sharp, C#.
So, with the C major scale we played no sharps; with the G major scale, up a 5th from the C, we played 1 sharp; with the D major scale, up a 5th from the G, we played 2 sharps, the F# we had before and one more, C#; with the A major scale, up a 5th from the D, we play 3 sharps, the F# and C# we had before and one more, G#. So, the pattern is, for a major scale, move the tonic up a fifth and add one more sharp. This pattern is a small part of the "circle of fifths".
As above, can use beats to pick out the notes of the A major scale and do the same with D major and G major. But should also learn to sing in the major scales. That is, should learn the basics of singing. When singing, should learn to hear the pitch before singing it, and then should apply that to getting pitches correct on violin. And, right, to help getting the pitch, and other aspects of the sound you want, from a violin, learn to hear the sound in your head just before playing it.
That's a much better introduction to violin than I had!
If you want to have fun with violin, the above is a good start.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31903157
post in this thread about Kanopy.
Here I give an introduction to how to start with violin.
Why violin? Classical solo music is written mostly for piano or violin, and the ensemble music is heavily dependent on a section of violins. So, violin is very important in music.
Now a lot of music can be generated by software on computers, but generating all the expressiveness of a good violin with a good violinist would be a big challenge. So, violins are not likely to be fully replaced by computer generated music.
I learned to play violin, enough to make it through parts of some of the most important pieces, the Bach Chaconne, etc.
Bach wrote that piece originally for solo violin. E.g., as in:
Hilary Hahn
1,458,170 views Aug 15, 2020
Johann Sebastian Bach - Partita for
solo violin Nº 2 in D minor, BWV
1004.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngjEVKxQCWs
Bach, Busoni - Chaconne in D minor
BWV 1004 - Helene Grimaud (piano)
3,785,361 views
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw9DlMNnpPM
One version of an arrangement for orchestra is:
Boston Symphony Orchestra - J.S.Bach
Partita in D Minor, Chaconne BWV 1004
124,435 views Apr 4, 2013
Orchestration by Hideo Saito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WpzfAd5gXk
Another version for orchestra is:
Bach - Stokowski. Chaconne (1950)
214,972 views Jun 4, 2012
L'orchestration de la Chaconne de
J.S.Bach par Leopold Stokowski.
Enregistré en 1950.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEUYq5t-cCM
For more violin music there is:
Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons - Julia
Fischer - Performance Edit (Full HD 1080p)
3,567,731 views Jan 17, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-W3lfcVvY
For a more modern view of what can be done with violin music there is:
Sibelius / Jascha Heifetz, 1960:
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 -
Walter Hendl, CSO - Complete
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpPYat2aRB4
Here are some good ways to start to learn to play violin:
(1) Listen to some famous violin music, say, on YouTube. So from this, get some understanding of what sounds and music a violin is good for. Sure, concentrate on some of the best violin music by Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Sibelius played by famous violinists, Heifetz, Hahn, Fischer, etc. Get the sheet music, learn the basics of how to read sheet music, and follow along with the YouTube performances.
(2) Look carefully at still images of famous violinists holding their violin, e.g., Heifetz, Hahn, especially the Fischer perforamance of The Four Seasons as above.
The goal here is to learn how to hold the violin and the bow. This learning is important, crucial, etc. Nearly all good violinists of the last 50 years use a special shoulder rest that clips onto the back of the violin. The one I got was from Sweden. An excellent view is the Fischer video above.
(3) Get a few in-person one-on-one beginner lessons in violin. A music school or maybe a music shop should be able to recommend good teachers. Generally you can get really good lessons from a really good professional violinist for not much money. The early lessons are on (a) how to hold the violin and bow, (b) how to change strings, (c) how to tune the violin, (d) how to use the rosin on the bow, (e) how to play in some of the major scales.
Below is a "Music Theory 101 for Beginning Violinists".
After that and some lessons, the main need is practice. Occasionally return for lessons with a good violinist to check that what you are practicing and learning are correct. You might find, as I did, that it takes 1000+ hours of practice alone to make good use of one lesson of one hour.
I recommend the book
Ivan Galamian, Principles of Violin Playing & Teaching, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1962.
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There are already more great movies/shows than one can watch in a lifetime, and we shouldn't incentivize the business of remakes of remakes of remakes.
Public libraries could use their funding for cooler stuff like letting people borrow musical instruments.
I did not. I don't see an article, just a landing page.
> because this is a service offering exactly the kind of content you are bemoaning the lack of.
I'm sure the Pirate Bay has a much larger catalog, with much less censorship.
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Not really, I really mean it.
> Like, look at the audiobook section... it's basically Harry Potter and a lot of "self help" psuedo-cultists.
I agree, piracy hasn't done well when it comes to audiobooks.